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Missing stories and vagueness
May. 6th, 2003 12:56 pmBloody hell. I've only gone and lost a story. It's somewhere on a disk, a disk that I can't find anywhere. That is, it should be on the missing disk, unless I've deleted the story or, as I'm strongly suspecting, saved something over it without realising, in which case, bugger!
It's been a trying weekend, and I don't feel very refreshed after 5 days off. But the good news is my brother has bought a holiday house in Staithes, which is near Whitby. I can't wait to see it.
I had some feedback, which did that good thing and made me think about how I write. I think my writing has a certain stillness and emotional distance to it, which I suppose would reflect what I'm like as a person. I don't mean that I'm calm, but rather I don't really like to rock the boat, challenge the status quo, get too involved and so on. This is not necessarily a good thing, or something I particularly admire about myself, and so it's frustrating to think that it comes out in whatever I write. I don't know if things do work like that, if a person's writing wholly reflects what they're like, but I think that it's inevitable that something of the writer comes through. Exactly what is harder to say. Maybe something in the general tone of their writing, and the sorts of things they write about. Are these things you can pick and choose? I think that the better a writer gets, the more skillfully they can create a world or character that is not tied to their world view or experiences; they can control to some extent the reader's experience.
It's been a trying weekend, and I don't feel very refreshed after 5 days off. But the good news is my brother has bought a holiday house in Staithes, which is near Whitby. I can't wait to see it.
I had some feedback, which did that good thing and made me think about how I write. I think my writing has a certain stillness and emotional distance to it, which I suppose would reflect what I'm like as a person. I don't mean that I'm calm, but rather I don't really like to rock the boat, challenge the status quo, get too involved and so on. This is not necessarily a good thing, or something I particularly admire about myself, and so it's frustrating to think that it comes out in whatever I write. I don't know if things do work like that, if a person's writing wholly reflects what they're like, but I think that it's inevitable that something of the writer comes through. Exactly what is harder to say. Maybe something in the general tone of their writing, and the sorts of things they write about. Are these things you can pick and choose? I think that the better a writer gets, the more skillfully they can create a world or character that is not tied to their world view or experiences; they can control to some extent the reader's experience.